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Dropsy
//ˈdɹɑp.si//
Synonyms for "dropsy" (110 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
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4 entriesetymologically related_to
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2 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ὕδερος noun (swelling)
- ὕδρωψ noun (swelling)
Arabic
1 entries- اِسْتِسْقَاء noun (swelling)
Armenian
1 entries- ջրգողություն noun (swelling)
Bulgarian
1 entries- воднянка noun (swelling)
Czech
1 entries- vodnatelnost noun (swelling)
Dutch
1 entries- waterzucht noun (swelling)
French
1 entries- hydropisie noun (swelling)
German
1 entries- Wassersucht noun (swelling)
Greek
1 entries- υδρωπικία noun (swelling)
Hungarian
3 entries- vizenyő noun (swelling)
- vízkór noun (swelling)
- ödéma noun (swelling)
Māori
1 entries- puku kōwhao noun (swelling)
Old English
2 entries- wætersēocnes noun (swelling)
- wæterādl noun (swelling)
Persian
1 entries- خشکاماز noun (swelling)
Polish
2 entries- puchlina noun (swelling)
- puchlina wodna noun (swelling)
Portuguese
2 entries- hidropisia noun (swelling)
- tropesia noun (swelling)
Russian
1 entries- водя́нка noun (swelling)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vodena bolest noun (swelling)
- водена болест noun (swelling)
Spanish
1 entries- hidropesía noun (swelling)
Tagalog
1 entries- kalamayo noun (swelling)
Telugu
1 entries- ఉబ్బురోగము noun (swelling)
Turkish
1 entries- hidrops noun (swelling)
Welsh
3 entries- clwyf y dŵr noun (swelling)
- dropsi noun (swelling)
- dyfrglwyf noun (swelling)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Your sacred Majesty, he has the dropsy;— We shall find pints of hydatids in’s liver, He has not half an inch of wholesome fat Upon his carious ribs—
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The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy.
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Like someone moving back in space until the earth appears as a tiny mote of light, he managed to distance himself from the immediate discomfort of pipes with dropsy, defiant plumbing tools, and the overly familiar fiberglass, by musing aloud on the evolutionary history of humans that allowed the two of us to communicate verbally, creating a word picture of the problem and how to fix it.
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